Cock"al (?), n. [Etymol. uncertain.]
1.
A game played with sheep's bones instead of dice
[Obs.]
2.
The bone used in playing the game; -- called also huckle bone.
[Obs.]
Nares.
A little transverse bone
Which boys and bruckeled children call
(Playing for points and pins) cockal.
Herrick.
© Webster 1913.